Derivatives

psychohistorian

After reading Isaac Asimov's classic ‘Foundation ‘novels, he nurtured a secret desire to be one of Asimov's ‘psychohistorians ‘- futuristic social scientists who could predict the course of human history.’

Even psychohistorians have discovered the Empire: a recent call for papers was made on the subject of ‘America as an Imperial Power?’

All along Ariadne is, even with her transformation into a psychohistorian and mathematical physicist, a particular interactive finite body, a particular finite system of ideas.

psychohistorical

Periodically, this Foundation would face a Seldon Event, a psychohistorical crisis, in which a threat to its existence which would constrain the nascent second empire to follow a single, pre-determined, path.

Fortunately there is, besides psychohistorical knowledge and mathematical physics, yet another knowledge - scientia intuitiva - which combines the other two in a single active act of understanding.

There was even psychohistorical analysis of a certain meeting in 1938, explaining how Hitler's superior mind reading skills led to devastating international conflict.